Q&A
Discussion on busing services for students in temporary housing
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Council Member Julie Won presses for more details on the number of students in temporary housing receiving bus services. The discussion reveals discrepancies and concerns about the adequacy of transportation services.
- It's clarified that out of 38,922 students in temporary housing, 14,152 use busing services across all shelter types.
- Won expresses concern about the seemingly low percentage of students receiving bus services, especially given the number of displaced students.
- Risbrook explains that busing is provided for K-6 students, and 7-8 graders with IEPs, which partially accounts for the lower numbers.
Julie Won
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And out of the 38,0922, how many of them are receiving school bus services to their schools?
Flavia Puello-Perdomo
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I think this is what my colleague was flag ins.
0:48:09
I think what I heard him say was that around those students, you mentioned over 5000 were routed in buses.
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The other thing is, like, this includes the aggregate.
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So meaning that only k through 6 students are the one who receive buses.
0:48:24
The number that I gave you includes all the age ranges.
Julie Won
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Right.
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And we're trying to figure out how out of almost 40,000 students, only 5000 of them get bus services, even though we know the majority of the children, especially from k to 6, who qualify for bus services have been displaced all throughout the city, especially from one borough to another.
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That's the number we're looking for.
Glenn Risbrook
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Again, what I the number that I mentioned was overall on all the shelters on all the shelters, we have 14,152 students who use busing.
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And the DHS shelters, it's 5937.
Julie Won
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Okay.
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So the overall all shelters, including including HPD, OEM, DHS, it's 14,000 students who are receiving bus bus services throughout the city Yeah.
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Out of almost 40,000.
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That's still a very small percentage.
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So I am still very concerned about how these migrant students are getting to school.
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Uh-huh.
Glenn Risbrook
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Again, one of the we bus students in temporary housing that are in a great range is k through 6.
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And then 7 and 8 if they have an IEP.
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So I I don't know what why there'll be what what the gulf is.
0:49:34
I I'll certainly go back, but that is the number that we have in it.
Julie Won
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Understood.
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But I just wanna put on the record that with almost 40,000 students, so 38,0922, only 14,000 of them are receiving bus services.
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And we know that there are more than 14,000 students that are in the k to 6 grade level, so that's why it's concerning to hear.
Glenn Risbrook
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One one more thing, chair.
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Some of our students also take Omni.
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They also take Omni cards to go back and forth to school, and they're all on buses.
Julie Won
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So we're hearing directly from principals as well as parents and students who do not have OmniCards this school year.
